The Onam Box-office!

The box office of onam 2009 is certainly not throwing up any surprises. A week after Onam, the big festival season in Kerala, the Malayalam film industry is still reeling under it's biggest ever drubbing in history! There has never been such a disastrous Onam, as all the four releases have turned out to be damp squibs at the Kerala box-office. Mammootty -Daddycool

Take a look- Kanakanmani, The film maintained 70%-80% collections all through the week, continuing in almost all the release centers. Oru Black&white Kudumbam, Sudharil Sudhan, and Decent parties are flops, which are unlikely to recover their combined cost of approximately Rs 7 Crore! Except Daddy Cool & Puthiya Mugham, all the other releases were 'hold over' (a trade term for a film which falls below the normal accepted collection figure) on the opening day!

In Capital City, Kerala's one of highest collecting centre, on Thiruonam day (September 2), only Mammootty's Daddy Cool and Prithvi Raj's Puthimugham, reported 100 Mohanlal -Bhramaram percent collection, 25 days after release ! Puthiya Mugham emerged as clear onam winner and Completes 50 days in fifteen plus center . while E Pattanathil Bhootham on its 55th day could get only 50 percent! Mohanlal's Bhramaram, on its 65th day reported 40 percent collection,Even though the film's narratives is not up to the mark , expected from some one like Blessy, the visuals and the good music works extremely well for the film and one expects that these factors worked together to help the film , to sustain Major centers.

The other three Onam releases, theatres refused to give the figures, as it would be embarrassing for their makers.

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